Instead of the typical midyear goals show, Robby tackles the often forgotten SWOT Analysis on this week's show. Though, you be ready for us to go full throttle midyear goals in a week or two.

Chase let Robby wander off on his own this week with a microphone in his empty office with no roadmap for his solo debut. The world smiled at Mr. Woods as he took a phone call from a realtor to kick off the show.

Following that Robby decides to spend this week going over the SWOT Analysis that you should be doing on your own company.  He’s giving an inside glimpse to his personal SWOT Analysis that he was taught by his mentor to use in evaluating his business throughout the year.

Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats

From here we want you to start getting your head in the right place to start reviewing you goals to evaluate your progress thus far in the year. Robby shares a few deep insights to places he doesn’t feel that he is succeeding at so far this year.

This reflection gives you the opportunity to truly assess your goals and the progress to decide if the lack of progress is your fault or the fault of the goal size.

This all gets tied together with some progress Robby has made with Michelle Humphrey, his business coach, his SWOT Analysis, and written goals combining together to grow his business.

Hopefully we brought you a solid show for this week; let us know your thoughts.

If you have any questions for us or comments send them our way at [email protected].

• Robby Flies Solo For The First Time
• Why Not Take A Live Call From A Real Estate Agent
• The Difference Strong Vendors Can Make In Your Business
• Some Of The Largest Threats For Note Investors
• Why A SWOT Analysis Can Be So Profitable For Your Business

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Chase & Robby

How can you work full-time while investing in real estate? Today we interview an investor that works 60+ hours a week driving a truck, and is still an active note investor. We’re talking with Gene Chandler of Chandler Financial, LLC from Indiana. Like a few people we've had on the show before, and many of our listeners, Gene got started in real estate investing by house hacking.

He started investing in the 80's when interest rates hovered around 10%.  After house hacking his way into numerous rentals and getting to the point of managing 52+ rentals, he and his wife started doing real estate development in the early 2000's.

However, like many he took a huge hit from 2007-09. He didn't sit around licking his wounds, though. He sat down and took inventory of the situation. He owned his mistakes.

Even after the setbacks he knew real estate was still the best way to get ahead. Gene talks about the biggest mistake that he changed about his business was reserves. He now watches the reserves available at any given time for his business.

We touch base on the live Periscope videos Gene has been shooting to market his business. You can find him on Periscope at ChandlerFinancial. If you've been wanting to start doing video, you need to check out his 'Scopes.

Gene breaks down his first few notes deals, which spoiled him at bit in the business, they were complete home runs.

You can shoot Gene an email at [email protected].

If you have any questions for us or comments send them our way at [email protected].

• How To Invest While Working A 60+ Hour A Week Job
• The Benefits Of Living In A Note Investing Market
• Why Great Communication In Your Business Is Important
• How The Oldest Investor On Periscope Is Crushing It
• The Good And The Bad That Comes From Hitting Home Runs On Your First Deals

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Chase & Robby

We're back where it all began for Note MBA, the top note investing show on iTunes. Robby is in one of his favorite places in Asia, Chiang Mai. While Chase records from his office in San Antonio, Texas.

For those that might be new to the show, here's the rundown. Robby and Chase met at Noteworthy in Las Vegas in late 2014. Over the next two months, Note MBA was born.

They start off today with Robby talking about the correlations between running your business while you travel, and working a 9-5 to job. The highlights would be setting appropriate expectations and putting systems in place.

After that, they dive right into note investing deal talk.

First up, having a hedge fund rewind a deal on you. This will happen from time to time. After you've already wired money in the bank or hedge fund, if something isn't right they might rewind a deal, and send your money back. This isn't a common occurrence when note investing, but something to be aware of.

There has also been a focus on higher value asset acquisition. We've had some money come to the table only wanting this asset class. We'll bring you some case studies with these higher value deals when they finish up.

Moving on we talk about how the Content Spider facilitated the raising of capital for a recent acquisition in Illinois. Last week Chase went over the real estate marketing strategy he's been using for some time.

They finish out talk about some foreclosures coming up, and how people are always looking for deals.

If you have any questions for us or comments send them our way at [email protected].

• We're Back Where The Note MBA Podcast Began
• When A Note Investing Deal Gets Rewound On You
• Recent Note Acquisition In Bloomington Illinois
• A Psychology Trigger Word You Should Be Using
• The Marketing Strategy The Raised Capital Recently

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Chase & Robby

Today's show is geared towards marketing your real estate business. While Robby flies across the Pacific, Chase flies solo again. In this week's show, we tackle a concept Chase has talked about a few time before, the Content Spider.

The Content Spider is a great system you can use to start marketing your business.  It's a fairly simple strategy that you can use to maximize a single piece of content.

Along with the podcast recording, Chase also recorded a video for the Note MBA Note Investing YouTube channel.

The strategy works by taking a large piece of content like an 800-1000 word blog post or a video, then distributing it uniquely and natively across the web and social media.

Here's the rundown.

Write a 900-word blog post - 19 Ways Note Investing Will Make You Rich.

Using that blog post as a script, record a video on an app like Periscope or with a video camera. Then go to Canva, and make a thumbnail for the video. Upload the thumbnail to YouTube and Facebook, along with the video files.

If you used an app like Periscope be sure to check the box in the Setting tab to save the video.

Now that you have an image be sure to use it with the original blog post as well.

Also, use that image for your Instagram post to drive traffic back to the blog post or the videos on YouTube or Facebook.

Next up is your LinkedIn Pulse article. Using the original blog post you can either trim it down into a teaser, or you can repost with a byline that says, "This article was original at YourWebsite.com [linking back to the orginal]."

And so on from there.

Chase also addresses a main concern many people have regarding scheduling. A major complaint is people saying they don't have enough time to be omnipresent.

How to schedule out the use of the Content Spider is what Chase covers next.

Don't let the simplicity of the Content Spider keep you from using it and taking action. Whether you try to knock it all out in the begin or take it one step at a time. It can really change the way you market you real estate business.

If you have any questions for us or comments send them our way at [email protected].

• Chase Flies Solo For The Second Time In A Month
• Our First Video Podcast Episode.
• The Content Spider System To Market Your Business
• A Unique Use For Fiverr And Pinterest To Creat Content
• An Inexpensive Way To Automate Writing A Blog Post

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Chase & Robby

Your hosts are back together for a show of their own this week discussing everything from learning lessons while note investing to a gender reveal to an upcoming working vacation for Mr. Woods.

Fresh off some travel to Las Vegas for Paper Source Seminars we have a brief recap of the experience, and want to send another big thank you out to Bill and Allison for inviting Robby out to attend the conference.

Though Robby didn’t spend much time in the room listening to the speakers, he was able to engage a new vendor in Financial Forensic Services, LLC.

If you network with Robby via social media you might know that he just finished reading a book by Sherman Arnowitz called: The Art of Investing in Distressed Second Mortgages.

In regards to learning lessons for this week, Robby discusses the need to have locked in your pricing and terms with a seller before you start spending cash on due diligence. Also, there’s a seller financed note out of Texas that had some very important escrow wording left out that needs to be revised to bring the loan in line with HAMP guidelines.

We've got some travel hacking tips on using your business credit cards to rack up sky miles (Robby’s business class ticket to Hong Kong is only going to cost him 70,000 skymiles and $5.60, not bad for a ticket marketed at $4,600 online).

Quick update on Property Masters, the company we use for property preservation. They were engaged to handle the remodel and get a property market ready in South Carolina. Not only was the work done at a very professional level, actually exceeding the expectations of our local agent.

Robby was able to pay for the repairs on his credit card, already getting him nearly 20% of the way towards his next round trip flight overseas in business class for pennies.

And, a final congratulations, to the Thompson clan as they add a baby boy to the family!!!

If you have any questions for us or comments send them our way at [email protected].

• We Take Time To Debrief This Year's Paper Source
• A New Vendor To Do Financial Forensics
• Mortgage Doc Woes In Marshall Texas
• A Property Vendor Crushing The Job
• How To Travel The World And Invest In Notes At The Same Time

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Cheers,

Chase & Robby

The biggest shift over the past year for our business growth has

Michelle has spent the past 16 years as a leading expert in

Our show today is going to get you to bring some attention to

Your willingness to create your own shift is the leading step

The next phase leads to being clear on what it is you want to

Throughout the show we develop on these ideas and the importance

Check out Michelle’s Big Profits Now Live video

If you have any questions for us or comments send them our

Thanks for listening to our show! We’ll be back next

Cheers,

Chase & Robby

This week Chase talks about marketing your business in today's

In recent conversations, people have been confused about using

Chase quotes Gary Vaynerchuk, a thought leader in the

Adapting to the changes in how to market your business is

After that, he dives in on 3 marketing tactics people might

The first is that you don't really need to be blogging every

He offers up 3 solutions, or slight shifts, to approach these

Finally, one of the last things he talks about is

The slide people are really enjoying, and one Chase talks about

If you have any questions for us or comments send them our

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Cheers,

Chase & Robby

This week we are bringing you an interview with title report expert Alex Goldovsky, the CEO of ProTitleUSA.

He has been in the title search business for over 15 years and works with some of the biggest names in the industry in an effort to meet the needs of the current market. Alex has a master’s degree in engineering, which has helped in the development of the automated processes that have made ProTitle so successful.

Following the sell-off of his real estate portfolio in 2007 before the crash Alex was put together with a group of individuals with comparable skills and the group put together what is now ProTitle, allowing him to leave a 15-year career in technology.

The timing of Alex’ selloff was more in line with the nature of the properties he owned; dealing with the troubles of land lording over drug dealers in low-income properties added up to enough of a mental headache and physical threat now that he was a father to keep going in this segment of the marketplace.

About fourteen minutes in we get to some of the meat of what ProTitle can do for the average note investor, kicking off with the importance of a title search before buying any non-performing mortgage as an asset.

Alex goes over a variety of topics from the proper position of a lien in a title report to the potential need to file a claim against a title policy when previous liens were released incorrectly or even when they have still not been released.

With all the information provided, we’ll be having Alex back on the show down the road to help us work through the remainder of the amazing list that he put together for us.

Check out www.protitleusa.com for your next title report order, and if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to call in and ask for Alex if you want an extra set of eyes to walk you through the report.

If you have any questions for us or comments send them our way at [email protected].

Thanks for listening to our show! We’ll be back next Wednesday morning.

Cheers,

Chase & Robby

This week we have a great interview with Bill Mencarow of the Paper Source Journal and the Paper Source Seminar.

Bill has had an amazing history that we would love for you to hear about from politic during the Reagan administration to investing in real estate in a market with interest rates over 17%.

Bill’s start in the early 80s focused around the simplicity of notes securing single-family homes. Since then Bill has educated himself into the focus of cash flows from a wide variety of assets including commercial property, retail property, cell tower leases, airplanes, and farmland.

Bill runs though a list of the 12 things you can do with a note… this is from an article that was written as part of the Paper Source Journal in the recent months. {The variety of exit strategies create one of the most valued qualities of a note investment.

One great thing that Robby wanted to highlight during the conversation is the diverse array of real estate based holdings that Bill is invested in. As we all grow our portfolios over time it was wise to adjust and redistribute the investments into a variety of asset classes to hedge against a variety of potential external threats to your holdings.

The great thing about all of this growth in your portfolio is enhanced when Bill gets into how much this market is willing to help everyone else that is involved in the market.

Paper Source Seminar is taking place this month in Las Vegas!

Thursday, April 28th to Sunday, April 30th at the Tuscany Suites just off the street.

If you are signing up last minute, head to the website: Paper Source Seminars

Save $50.00 using the code: NoteMBA

If you have any questions for us or comments send them our way at [email protected].

Thanks for listening to our show! We’ll be back next Wednesday morning.

Cheers,

Chase & Robby

Today we interview an investor that has spent a lifetime in real estate. We’re talking with Kimberley Banks Fawcett of Inspired Capital Group, LLC from just outside of Dallas, TX. Kimberly was born into the real estate business. Her first roles were on the operations side, she eventually started her own real estate firm.

Her first real estate investment was a condo purchased shortly after finishing up college. The extra rooms were rented out to friends, allowing Kimberly to house hack her way through three years of rent-free living while paying down her mortgage.

While holding a wide variety of real estate investments in her portfolio she is currently focused on residential first and second lien mortgages. First lien notes are her bread and butter, and she dipped her toe into seconds because it allows her to get smaller investments into a much nicer underlying property. Plus with seconds, she feels she has a larger variety of exits than with a 1st position lien.

When reviewing deals she isn’t so much concerned about the type of properties she is purchasing liens on, but about the opportunity to have every exit strategy as a potential from the start of the investment. With a target ROI of 25% in the case of a foreclosure, which she finds to be, her most costly and time-consuming exit strategy.

The seconds are adding an interesting play to her portfolio, as she is able to buy in pools - a recent pool had 12 notes. On a recent acquisition, she made contact with a homeowner that had their home destroyed in a tornado.

This 1st position lien had forced placed coverage, and when the owner sold the lot Kimberly netted $20,000 on a $4,000 investment from one phone call with the borrower. This borrower had actually reached out to Kimberly so that he could get the mortgage company to approve a short sale of the remaining lot.

When it comes to vendors to help add value to your business, Kimberly loves WeGoLook. They’ve provided some great assistance in getting simple pictures taken of a property she’s looking to acquire.

Kimberly left us with one of her largest challenges in the market right now, which has been in line with what we have been seeing, which is the uptick in pricing by sellers and asking for inflated pricing. Which to us, essentially means there is a very limited amount of quality inventory available at prices we are willing to pay.

You can shoot Kimberly an email at [email protected]. She also has one of the largest note investing Meet-Up groups in the country, DFW Note Closers.

If you have any questions for us or comments send them our way at [email protected].

Thanks for listening to our show! We’ll be back next Wednesday morning.

Cheers,

Chase & Robby